Receiving-account check



Patented May 1 7, 1921.

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RECEIVAING ACCOUNT CHECK. APPLICATION FILED JULY 29.1920.

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RECEIVING-ACCOUNT CHECK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May-17, i921.

Application led July 29, 1920. Serial No. 399,807.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, .IENs Riis, a -declarant for citizenship of the United States, and a resident of Castlewood, in the county of Hamlin and State of South Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Receiving-Account Checks, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates generally to check books or pads, and more particularly to check books or pads for produce or commodity receiving stations such as creameries or other receiving stations, wheremanylchecks are written and where speed and accuracy are essential, my object being to simplify the payment of accounts, issuance of receipts and entry of receipts, performing these three operations practically as one. More particularly my invention aims to provide an arrangement in which checks in series are detachable from and with stubs, the latter havingin the series numbered entry spaces whose numbers correspond with their checks and are in radially offset relation throughout the series and in individual registry with a series of consecutively numbered entry spaces of an entry or cover sheet, in the filling out of which the data of the transaction for which each check is issued is duplicated upon the stub of that respective check.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating my invention and forming a part of this specification, l

Figure 1 is a top plan view with the cover or permanent entry page removed, showing the upper check blank and its stub and with the latter partly broken away as hereinafter described, and

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the cover page or permanent entry sheet, partly broken away.

Referring now to these figures I propose a check pad or book including a plurality of superposed check blanks 10, consecutively numbered in the ordinary way, each of which is -detachably connected by means of a perforate line 11, to a stub 12 having a series of vertical and horizontal columns, the vertical columns of which have headings 13 including the date, one or more commodities and their amounts as well as the name or number of the one from which the commodities are purchased headed Patrons Number and who becomes the payee of the check issued for the purchase. One of the horizontal columns of each stub 12 is numbered to correspond with the number of the respective check blank 10 detachably carried thereby, and these numbers, indicated at 14:, of the stubs are in different horizontal columns throughout the series, from the u pper column as at 14 in Fig. 1 in connection with the uppermost stub and its check, to the lower column as at 15 in Fig. 1 in connection with the lowermost stub and its check. The stubs will of course have as many horizontal columns as there are stubs and checks in the series of the pad or book.

The several stubs 12 are detachably connected along perforate lines 16 with the binding 17 of the pad or book, the latter of which includes in a permanent manner one edge 18 of a cover sheet 19 shown in Fig. 2, which has a series of vertical and horizontal columns, headed and numbered to register with and correspond to the several stubs 12.

Thus in receiving goods the data respecting the identity of the one from vwhom the purchase is being made aswell as the date, amount and character of the purchase will be entered in the upper horizontal column ofthe cover or permanent entry page 19 and will be duplicated upon the correspondingly numbered horizontal columnl of the stub 12 next below the same, either by means of a carbon sheet interposed beneath the sheet 19 or by having the back of this sheet carbonized as seen at 20. The entry thus duplicated on the stub 12 constitutes a receipt for the goods which is given the seller of the goods, after the check blank 10 has been filled in to the proper amount and date and signed, by detaching the stub 12 with the check. The one from whom the purchase is made subsequently detaches the check 10 from the stub 12 and retains the stub as his receipt for the lgoods 'while the purchaser retains a similar record on the sheet 19, and it is obvious that in view of the fact that the data on sheet 19 embraces all of the transactions for which the several checks and receipts of the series are issued, minimum amount of wor-k is required in subsequent auditing or examination, the series of transactions being before the eyes at the same time.

My invention thus proposes an arrangement which greatly lessens the amount of work at the receiving stations of creameries. produce buyers and like places, which avoids waste of time and veXatious delays and is generally more satisfactory to all parties concerned than the separate entry systems now commonly employed.

I claim:

1. A check pad including an upper permanent entry sheet having a series of consecutively numbered rows divided into entry spaces forming columns and headed, a series of superposed check blanks, and a se 'ries of superposed stubs beneath the columned entry sheet, detachably connected to the pad and detachably connected to the check blanks, the several stubs having headed columns like the entry sheet and having numbers corresponding to their check blanks registering With the respective numbers of the entry sheet.

2. A check blank including a permanent entry sheet having a series of entry columns and provided With progressively increasing numbers opposite the several columns, a series of detachable stubs beneath the entry sheet, having entry columns, and each having a number in one of its columns registering With the respective number of the entry sheet, and a series of check blanks detachably connected to the stubs,

5 each check being` numbered to correspond with its respective stub and being removable With the latter from the pad.

3. A check pad having a cover leaf forming a permanent entry sheet and a series of check forms, and stubs detachable with respect to the pad and to which the check blanks are in turn detachably connected, each of said stubs and its respective check blank y being numbered in Correspondence With one series of stubs each having an entry space and a number corresponding to the check blank With Which and from Which it is detachable, and a permanent entry sheet overlying the stubs, having a series of entry spaces in registration With the entry spaces of the stubs and numbered in correspondence therewith. i

5. A series of numbered check blanks, a permanent entry sheet having numbered entry spaces corresponding to the several checks, and stubs for the several check blanks having numbered entry spaces dupli eating those of the respective check blanks, the numbered space of each of Which stubs is in registration With the correspondingly numbered space of the entry sheet.l

6. A series of numbered check blanks, a

permanent entry sheet having numbered entry spaces corresponding to the several checks, and stubs for the several check blanks having numbered entry spaces duplieating those of the respective check blanks, the numbered space of each of which stubs is in registration with the correspondingly numbered space of the entry sheet, the said stubs being detachable With respect to the said entry sheet and being also detachable With respect to the check blanks carried thereby. JENS RHS 

